Samuli
Helle
Docent, Department of Biology
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Ph.D., Docent
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Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology
demography
epidemiology
statistics
fishing.
Research
My main research interest is human evolutionary demography in preindustrial populations. In my research I use historical demographic data from northern Fennoscandia that contain people practicing traditional subsistence modes as well small-scale agriculture and trading. This data set is accompanied with wealth of information on how those people lived and on their environmental conditions. I also work sporadically with other study systems related to evolutionary psychology, evolutionary medicine and behavioral ecology.
Publications
Kin recognition and step-paternal investment: the effect of childhood co-residence duration (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Identifying the paths of climate effects on population dynamics: dynamic and multilevel structural equation model around the annual cycle (2021)
Oecologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Lineage-based differences in grandparental investment according to adverse early life experiences of grandchildren (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Dead or alive: The interplay of grandparental investment according to the survival status of other grandparent types (2020)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants (2019)
Scientific Reports
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Does testosterone predict women's preference for facial masculinity? (2019)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Impact of continuous predator threat on telomere dynamics in parent and nestling pied flycatchers (2019)
Oecologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do “Dark” Personality Features Buffer Against Adversity? The Associations Between Cumulative Life Stress, the Dark Triad, and Mental Distress (2019)
Sage open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Search for a Resource-Based Trade-off Between Lifetime Reproductive Effort and Women's Postreproductive Survival in Preindustrial Sweden (2019)
Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Evaluating the personality structure of semi-captive Asian elephants living in their natural habitat (2018)
Royal Society Open Science
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))